Nicole M. Wolverton is a fear enthusiast and Pushcart-nominated writer of 50-plus works of short fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as two novels--A Misfortune of Lake Monsters (CamCat Books, 2024) and The Trajectory of Dreams (Bitingduck Press, 2013). She also served as Editor of the 2021 anthology Bodies Full of Burning, the first-ever short fiction anthology that centers horror through the lens of menopause (Sliced Up Press). She lives in the Philadelphia area, where she earned a masters in horror and storytelling from the University of Pennsylvania.